Thus, even when a layperson listens carefully to someone professing great expertise, the layperson may be at a loss to decide whether the self-professed expert merits much trust.
Despite being a self-professed expert on the piece, Mr. Kaplan ignored Mahler's "blizzard" of directions, Mr. Finlayson wrote.
The US-based Centre for Constitutional Rights sued Scott Lively, a Massachusetts-based evangelical and self-professed expert on the "gay movement", in 2012, on behalf of Smug, alleging that his involvement in anti-gay efforts in Uganda constitutes persecution.
Aviation experts professed near certainty that the slab of airplane wing came from Flight 370, which disappeared 16 months ago, and are hoping that lab tests will provide clues to what happened to the plane and the 239 people on board.
But if Obama professed to be an expert on Islam, so did George W. Bush.
A complete analysis of the revolution ought, however, to allow for the influence, on oligarchic leaders like Antiphon and the less-extreme Theramenes, and no doubt on others, of the subversive teaching of the Sophists (rhetorically adept "experts" who professed to impart their knowledge of such politically useful skills as rhetoric, usually in exchange for money).
If your gal hates her gift, the company will refund your money plus shipping, pay for you to send the gift back to them and give you a discount on your next purchase (though I have to wonder why you would use them again if they had already failed at the one thing they profess to be experts at).
"I do feel an obligation to help new writers who are serious about their work, but I don't profess to be an expert on anything.
On the Internet, where anyone can profess to be an expert, rumor sites can make all these theories seem plausible, particularly to a new generation that has not been educated properly about the risks of H.I.V.
"Being the wrong side of 50, I wouldn't profess to be an expert on Facebook, Twitter or anything else, but I'm very aware of how much the children use it.
